Afghanistan
Soviet war, 17
war on terror/effects, 11, 192, 193
Al-Qaeda, xi, 69, 104, 111, 113, 192, 255
See also 9/11 terrorist attacks/aftermath
Albright, Madeleine, 103–104, 105, 189
All-Russian Civic Congress, 149, 150
Alyokhina, Maria, 135, 266–267
See also Pussy Riot
Anatomy of Fascism (Paxton), 29
Andropov, Yury, 94
Anti-gay laws/discrimination, 225–226, 227
Anti-Semitism, 124–125
Appeasement
Chamberlain and Hitler example, xxvi, 9, 245, 262, 263
Churchill on, xii
“détente” and, 116
elections (rigged) and, xvii, 129–130, 168–169, 170–171, 172–173, 178–179, 181–183, 186
foreign policy and, 113–117
Havel on, 250–251
Khodorkovsky arrests/sentences and, 127, 130
recommendations (overview), 262–263
terrorists and, 256
vocabulary/language and, 244
See also specific events; specific individuals
Arafat, Yasser, 104
Armenia/Azerbaijan ethnic violence, 23–24
Armenian genocide, 235
Ashton, Catherine, 230
Assad, Bashar al-/Syria, xi, 109, 224, 233
Autocrats. See Dictators/totalitarianism
Bach, Thomas, 233
Baker, James, 33
Baku, Azerbaijan and Kasparov, 19–20, 23–24
Barak, Ehud, 104
Barayev, Movsar, 121
Barroso, José Manuel, 156
Bartley, Bob, 21
Bastrykin, Alexander, 257
Berezovsky, Boris
criticizing Putin/consequences, 96, 98–99, 100, 125
wealth/property and, 76, 93, 96, 98–99
Bergkraut, Eric, 183
Berlin Wall fall/effects, xx, xxii, 15, 20, 31, 33, 74, 251, 252, 253
Berlusconi, Silvio, 2, 9, 105, 158, 161, 173, 175, 207
Beslan hostage situation
description/Russian government cover-ups, 9, 79, 123, 138–142, 146–147
Kasparov’s visit to site, 144–146
Biden, Joe, 213–214
Blair, Tony, 105, 106, 156, 157, 169
Boko Haram, 254
Boston Marathon bombing, 46
Brezhnev, Leonid, xix, 116, 234
Britain and Litvinenko’s assassination, 161, 206
Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, 51–52, 240
Bukovsky, Vladimir, 250
Bush Doctrine, 118
Bush, George W.
campaign/election (2000), 104
Chechnya and, 112
dissidents meeting, 187
Iraq/Afghanistan and, 171, 191, 193
Putin/Russia and, xvii, 11, 12, 53, 110, 111–113, 119, 156, 157, 171, 187
Bush, H. W.
Gulf War (first) and, 32, 33, 35–36, 66
USSR and, 6, 15, 22, 27–28, 32, 33, 63, 198
World Transformed, A (Bush and Scowcroft), 22, 36, 40–41
Yugoslavia/ethnic cleansing war and, 36–37, 38, 67
Bush, Jonathan, 21
Cameron, David, xviii, 206, 207, 225, 241
Camp David Summit (2000), 104
Cardin, Ben, 208
Carré, John le, 204
Caucasus regions
conflict and, 46
location, 46–47
See also specific republics/countries
Cernan, Eugene, 253
Charlie Hebdo/Paris terrorist attacks, 254, 255, 256
Charlie Rose (television show), 118
Chávez, Hugo, 168
Chechnya-Ingushetia region/independence conflict
Beslan hostage situation/Russian government cover-ups, 9, 79, 123, 138–142, 146–147
borders and, 47
Chechens image/actions and, 45–46, 73, 75–76, 82
description/consequences, 9, 46, 47–49, 50–51, 73–74, 75–76, 81–82, 108, 186
destruction of Grozny/effects, 46, 75, 78, 81
kidnappings/bombings and, 45–46, 73, 74, 81
Nord-Ost hostage situation/Russian government cover-ups, 9, 79, 120–123, 138–139, 140
Ryazan “interrupted bombing” and, 77–79
Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster, 16–17, 28
China
economy/rise from poverty, 60–61
Hong-Kong pro-democracy protests and, 59–60, 62
people’s importance and, 59–60
Russia/Putin and, 110
Chirac, Jacques, 105–106, 156, 187
Chubais, Anatoly, 75, 76, 85, 93
Churchill, Winston
importance of, 245
“iron curtain” speech, 259–260
World War II/following, 37, 236–237
Churov, Vladimir, 177, 212, 213
Clinton, Bill
campaign/election to presidency, xxii, 37, 38–39
Yeltsin and, xxi, 7, 48–49, 50, 51, 53
Yugoslavia/Kosovo and, 39–41, 54
Clinton, Hillary, xvii, xviii, 12, 53, 200, 203, 210–211
Communism
See also specific countries; Specific individuals
Concentration camps, xxii, 36, 39
Cox, Chris, 83
Crime rate in Russia, 99
Cuba, 34, 109–110, 189, 239, 254
Decision Points (Bush, George W.), 111, 187
Democracy/democracies
end in Russia, 128–129
“genetic” theory of, 61
Putin’s terms on, 128
Soviet views (with Soviet Union collapse), 55–56
terrorists views on, 67
values/principles importance (overview), xii–xiii, xxiv, 61–62, 254–256, 260–261, 267
Dictators/totalitarianism
engagement (appeasement) with, xii, xv–xvi, xviii, xix–xx, xxv, xxvii, 6, 8, 41, 59–60, 156–159, 164–165, 181, 183, 203, 204–208, 252
influences of, 233
law application vs. law content, 100
learning from history, 18, 32, 228
left-wing vs. right-wing, 33–34
people’s unimportance to, 60, 146–147
petro-dictatorships, 60, 180, 191, 252
power grabs with USSR collapse, 44
terror/violence beginnings with, 224
World War II/evil and, xxi–xxii
See also specific individuals
Dobrynin, Anatoly, 115
Dot.com bubble burst (2000), 104, 106
Dudayev, Dzhokhar, 46
Dzasokhov, Aleksander, 139
Eagleburger, Lawrence, 37
Echo of Moscow radio station, 18, 105, 168, 216
Economist, 226
Education importance (overview), 263–266
Eisenhower, President, 198
Elections in Russia
opposition/requirements and, 176–178
Putin and, xvii, xviii, 1–2, 128, 129, 142, 167–169, 172–173, 182, 186, 190, 201–202, 211–213
End of History, The (Fukuyama), 4
European nations
immigrants/immigration, 42
Putin/Russia relationship overview, 202–203, 204–208
See also Appeasement; specific events/issues; specific individuals
Evil
potential vs. actualized, 68–69
See also specific individuals
Fable of scorpion/frog, 68–69, 91, 242
Fascism definition, 29
FIFA, 205
Financial Times, 128
Fischer, Bobby, 25
Fischer, Joschka, 67
Forbes magazine/list of billionaires, 185
Foreign policy
with dictators/human rights and, 113–117, 120
moral/immoral foreign policy, 113–119, 120
“photobombing” foreign policy (Putin), 110
Reykjavik summit (1986) example, 114–115
See also specific individuals
Free Choice 2008 Committee, 149
Friedman, Milton, 61
FSB defined, 74
Fukuyama, Francis, 4
G7/G8 countries
history/participants, 156
Russia’s ejection from, xvii, 11, 157, 244, 261
St. Petersburg Summit (2006) and Putin, 156–158
Gaddafi, Muammar, 109, 181, 204, 231
Gaidar, Yegor, 76
Gates, Robert, 203
Gazprom
Russian government and, 18, 161, 163, 170
Schröder and, 162–164
Genscher, Hans-Dietrich, 132
Georgia
NATO and, 197
Putin’s 2008 invasion/West response, x, xxii, 11, 45, 67, 119, 164, 173–174, 185–186, 187, 195–196, 202
semiautonomous regions (with USSR), and, 45
Gorbachev, Mikhail
comparisons to dictators/tsar, 7
coup (1991) and, ix, 26–27, 29
criticism of Putin, 166
Kasparov meeting, 24
new Soviet union and, 26–27, 44–45
policies/USSR and, 6–7, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21–22, 23, 24, 25–26, 32, 33, 58
Raisa (wife), 7
Reykjavik summit 1986/Reagan and, 114–115
West and, 6, 15, 21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 30, 33, 53
Gore, Al, 104
Guardian, 110
Gulf War (first), 32–33
Gusinsky, Vladimir
background/media, 10, 95–96, 105
Putin arresting/taking assets, 10, 95–96, 98–99, 100, 105, 125
Haig, Alexander, 83
Halberstam, David, 67
Halt, Karl Ritter von, 236
Harper, Stephen, 156
Havel, Václav, xix, 184, 221, 249–251, 266
Hayward, Tony, 207
Hindenburg, Paul/Oskar von, 85
Hitler, Adolf
Chamberlain/appeasement and, xxvi, 9, 245, 262, 263
power of/persecution by, xxii, xxvi, 85, 91, 109, 172, 210, 228, 234–236, 240, 253
Putin comparisons and, xxiii, xxvi, 234–236, 245
How Life Imitates Chess (Kasparov), 136–137
Human Rights Foundation/Václav Havel Prize, xxviii, 58, 176, 221, 266
Human Rights Watch Film Festival, 183
Huntington, Samuel, 4
Ichkeria (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria). See Chechnya
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 4, 28, 57, 72, 93
Iran
“Green Revolution,” 198
nuclear weapons/Russia, 49, 50, 109, 158, 169, 189, 192
terrorism/terrorist groups and, 192
ISIS (Islamic State), xi, xxv, xxvii, 69, 253, 255, 263
Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 117–118
Jackson-Vanik amendment (US/1974), 27–28, 115–116, 117–118, 208
Karpov, Anatoly, 17, 24, 25, 124, 152, 227
Kasparov Chess Foundation (KCF), 137, 176, 220
Kasparov Chess Online, 106
Kasparov, Garry
Aida (daughter), 138
background/chess and, 136
chess/winnings, xx–xxi, 15–16, 17, 19, 24–25, 54, 56, 106, 121, 124, 136, 227, 264
Dasha (wife), 138
discrimination against, 124
flag issue, chess match, 24–25
Nickolas (son), 138
Kasparov, Garry, political activism career
arrests/jail, 133–135, 152–155
beatings/harassment and, 143, 144, 145, 177, 220
beginnings/reasons, xiii, xiv, 137–138
decision to live outside Russia, 3, 219–222
description overview, 147–156
early travels, 142–144
media appearance introductions and, 175–176
personality/traits and, 151
retirement from chess and, xiii, 106, 136, 137–138
2008 presidential election/candidacy and, xiv, 176–177, 183
See also Opposition (to Putin) movement/activities
Kasparov.ru news service, 18
Kasyanov, Mikhail, 112, 147, 177–178
Katende, Robert, 264
Kennedy, John F., 109, 188, 190, 252–253
Kennedy, Robert, 219
Khakamada, Irina, 147
Khodorkovsky, Mikhail
arrests/charges, 123–124, 125, 126–127, 206
release (2013) and, 123–124, 132
sentence/imprisonment, 127, 128, 160–161, 199, 206, 220
as threat to Putin/Putin’s actions, 125–131, 180, 186
trial/closing statement, 127, 128, 130–131
Yukos energy business/plans and, 76, 123–124, 125–126, 127, 128, 160–161, 206–207
Kim Jong-il, 109, 204, 249, 251
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 219
Kirkpatrick, Jeane, ix
Kissinger, Henry, xviii, xix, 21, 116, 119
Klitschko, Vitali/Wladimir, 230, 231
Koizumi, Junichiro, 156
Korchnoi, Viktor, 227
Kramnik, Vladimir, 106
Kravchuk, Leonid, 52
Kudrin, Alexei, 128
Kukly (NTV show), 84
Kulayev, Nur-Pashi, 142
Kuril Islands, 28
Kursk nuclear sub sinking, 10, 97–98
Lady Gaga, 225
Larry King, ix
Lavrov, Sergei, xviii, 200, 238
Lebed, Alexander, 24
Lebedev, Platon, 126, 127, 130, 131
Lec, Stanislaw Jerzy, 130
Letter to Anna (documentary), 183, 184
Limonov, Eduard, 148
Lincoln, Abraham, 190–191
Litvinenko, Alexander
assassination/nuclear terrorism, 79, 161, 206
Louis XVI, King of France/Marie Antoinette, 7
Lugar, Richard, 198
Lukashenko, Alexander, xxii, 207
Luntz, Frank, 216
McCain, John, 188, 189, 190, 194, 195–197, 210
Mafia comparisons, xi, 1, 99, 100, 160–161, 165, 172, 205, 207
Magna Carta, global, xii, 260, 261
Magnitsky Act, 13, 117, 208–209, 220
Man Without a Face, The (Gessen), 89–90
Marches of Dissent, 151, 152, 176
Markey, Ed, 207
Maskhadov, Aslan, 139
Media in Russia
in 1990s, 10, 72, 75, 76, 84, 88, 97
Kursk sinking and, 97–98
Medvedev on, 184
Putin and, x, 9–10, 48, 88, 96–97, 97–99, 103, 104, 105, 120, 123, 144, 146, 149, 152, 173, 178, 184–185, 195, 209
Medvedev, Dmitry
background, 170
description/traits needed and, 170
election/presidency, xvii, 2, 172, 175, 182–183, 184, 200, 201
Putin and, xvii, xviii, 2, 169–170, 173, 175, 176–177, 178, 186, 190, 200, 202, 206
Memorial (human rights organization), 148
Merkel, Angela, xviii, 13–14, 156, 158, 162, 175, 241, 258
Mikhaylov, Viktor, 50
Milošević, Slobodan
ethnic cleansing/war and, 32, 36, 37, 38, 40, 63, 64, 69–70, 236
international court/war end and, 36, 39, 63, 65, 66, 67
Mitterrand, François, 39
Monde, Le, 233
Moon travel, 252–253
Mortal Games (Waitzkin), 22
Moscow Helsinki Group, 148
Moskalenko, Karinna, 127
Moskovsky Novosti, 93
Mothers of Beslan advocacy group, 142, 146
Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (Hill and Gaddy), 90
Musharraf, President, 192
Mutesi, Phiona, 264
My Life (Clinton, Bill), 48
“Myths of Putin’s Russia, The,” 179–181, 206
National Bolshevik Party, xiv, 148
Navalny, Alexei
arrests/harassment of, 214, 217, 220–221
Oleg (brother) and, 217
opposition movement and, 2, 148, 184, 214–215, 217–218
Nazarbayev, Nursultan, xxii, 182
Negoda, Natalya, 16
Nemtsov, Boris
assassination/aftermath, 85, 217, 256–257, 258, 259
criticizing Putin/opposition movement and, 2, 147, 148, 184, 206, 215, 257, 258
hostage negotiations and, 121
Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia/Alexandra, 7
9/11 terrorist attacks/aftermath
Putin’s calls to U.S. officials/effects, 11, 111–113, 118, 119
U.S. foreign policy and, 41, 120, 192, 193
Nixon, Richard, 116
No Apology: The Case for American Greatness (Romney), 210
No Higher Honor (Rice), 111
Nord-Ost hostage situation/Russian government cover-ups, 9, 79, 120–123, 138–139, 140
North Korea
nuclear weapons and, 52, 109, 158, 190, 191, 192, 204
Russia and, 109, 158, 190, 239
Nuclear terrorism and Litvinenko assassination, 161, 206
Nuclear weapons
Cuban missile crisis, 109
security promises and, 52–53
threat/effects, xi, xx, xxii, xxiv, xxvi
Ukraine/Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances and, 51–53
USSR/collapse and, xx, xxvi–xxvii, 4, 21, 28
See also specific countries
Nuland, Victoria, 230
Obama, Barack
anti-Putin movement and, 117
campaign/advisors and, 188–190, 191
Moscow speech/Kasparov and, 199–200
policies, 40, 41, 53, 193, 194, 235
Russia/Putin and, xviii, 11–12, 13, 41, 53, 55, 190, 195, 196, 199, 200–202, 208–209, 210–211, 213, 222, 233, 238–240, 241, 244–245, 262
Syria/Assad and, 233
views on America and, 193–194
wars in Iraq/Afghanistan and, 191
Oligarchs of Russia
anti-Semitism and, 124
Putin’s protection/West challenging and, 164, 165, 183, 205, 207–208, 238, 258, 259
Putin’s selective treatment of, xvi, 1, 8, 75, 77, 95–96, 98–99, 124, 125–127, 164, 165, 179
Sochi Olympics and, 226–227
Ukraine and, 245
wealth/spending, xv–xvi, xvi, xxiii, 8, 10, 57, 75, 76, 84, 88, 124, 165, 183, 185, 207
West economic engagement with, 158–159, 183, 203, 204–208
Yeltsin and, 10, 57, 75, 76, 77, 84, 85, 87, 185
See also specific individuals
Olympics
Berlin (1936) and Hitler, xxvi, 228, 235–236
Los Angeles (1984), 227
Mexico City (1968) and Black Power salutes, 228
Moscow (1980) and boycotts, 226, 227, 234
plans after Berlin Games, 233
Vancouver (2010), 226
Olympics, Sochi
as distraction/similarities to Berlin Games (1936), 229, 230, 232, 234, 236
financial costs/comparisons, 226
human rights/environmental obstacles and, 225–226, 227
protests against, 225–226, 227, 228, 233
Putin/status and, x, xxvi–xxvii, 132, 205, 225–227, 228, 229, 230, 232, 234
Open Russia program/foundation, 126, 132
Opposition (to Putin) movement/activities
“anti-extremism” bills (Putin) and, 3, 147
Biden meeting/Kasparov and, 213–214
Bolotnaya Square case and, 2–3, 215–218, 219, 232
“data dissidents,” 214
description overview (2005–2008), 147–156
diversity of, 148–150, 214, 221
harassment/arrests, 3, 151, 152–155, 156, 206, 215, 216–217, 220–221
myth on, 181
Russian constitutional rights and, 116, 206
social networks and, 215
West’s appeasement and, 173
See also Elections in Russia; specific individuals/organizations; specific legislation
Oslo Accords peace process, 104
Oslo Freedom Forum, 58, 221, 266
Other Russia, 150, 155–156, 167, 176, 178
Patrushev, Nikolai, 78
Paxton, Robert, 29
Peace treaties/organizations after conflict, 259–260
Perot, Ross, 37
Perry, William, 189
Piontkovsky, Andrei, 93–95
Playboy/interview, 15–16
Politico, 195
Politkovskaya, Anna
Chechnya/human rights and, 81–82, 121, 139, 183–184
poisoning of, 139
Poroshenko, Petro, 244
Posner, Vladimir, 184
Primakov, Yevgeny, 50, 66, 80, 85
Principles/values importance (overview), xii–xiii, xxiv, 61–62, 254–256, 260–261, 267
Prodi, Romano, 156
Prokhorov, Mikhail, 213
Pussy Riot
anti-Putin protest, 133, 135–136, 266–267
protesting sentencing of, 133
Putin, Vladimir
abolishing federal government/direct rule and, 82
aggressive actions summary (2008), 202
anti-democratic actions summaries, x–xi, 1–2
Arab Spring and, 203
background/KGB and, xiii, 74, 77, 81, 88–90, 163
comparisons to other dictators, 234–237
corruption and, xv–xvi, xxiii, 76, 82, 99–100, 205, 226–227
descriptions/motivations, 8, 56, 58, 67, 68, 76, 77, 89–95, 102–104, 107, 113, 119, 236–238, 245–246, 247–248, 256–257
government style summary, 159–161
handling criticism/opponents, 18–19, 43, 95–97, 215
Hitler comparisons and, xxiii, xxvi, 234–236, 245
Lyudmila (wife) and, 105–106
mafia comparisons and, xi, 1, 99, 100, 160–161, 165, 172, 205, 207
overview of early regime, 106–111
people’s unimportance to, 60, 146–147
recommendations on ending his regime, 258–259
rise to power/presidency, xiii, 47–48, 74–75, 76–78, 80, 83–84
victimhood/humiliation myth and, 28, 29, 30
West/G7 appeasement/support of, x, xvii, xviii–xix, xxv, xxviii, 6, 8–9, 10–14, 53, 54–55, 71, 72, 103–106, 152, 155–156, 156–159, 161–162, 173–174, 187, 200–202, 248, 258–259
world trouble spots and, 108–110, 158
Yeltsin presidency comparison, 87–89
See also Dictators/totalitarianism; Medvedev, Dmitry; Oligarchs of Russia; Opposition (to Putin) movement/activities; Russia; specific events/issues
Puzo, Mario books and Putin’s government style, 160–161
Rabin, Yitzhak, 104
RAND Corporation/event, 21
Reagan, Ronald
beliefs/speeches and, xii–xiii, 6, 33, 35, 36, 51, 72, 256
Reykjavik summit 1986/Gorbachev and, 114–115
USSR and, xix, 188, 190, 200, 251
Recommendations (overview)
appeasement and, 262–263
dissidents and, 267
education, 263–266
on ending Putin’s regime, 258–259
global Magna Carta, xii, 260, 261
measures, 260–267
Reitschuster, Boris, 182
“Reset” meeting/button, xvii–xviii, 12, 200
Rice, Condoleezza
Medvedev “election” and, 170–171
Putin/Russia and, xviii, xix, 11, 12, 21, 111, 112, 118
Rodina/“Homeland” (political party), 140
Romney, Mitt, 209–210
Roosevelt, Franklin, 236–237
Rosneft (oil company), xvi, 163, 206–207
Russia
anthem/Soviet music (2000), 100–102, 108
anti-Western rhetoric and, 71, 72–73, 168, 193–194
constitution, 1, 2, 56, 57, 98, 116, 137, 147, 166–167, 169, 175, 200, 206, 213, 224, 225, 257
former USSR republics and, 45
nuclear weapons, xxvi–xxvii, 4, 52, 247
victimhood/humiliation myth, 28–29, 30, 51
West (1990s) and, 48–51, 70, 71–73
West/G7 countries aid and, 28–29, 30, 49, 72
See also specific events/wars; specific individuals
Russia Journal, 93–94
Russian energy (oil/gas)
cutting supplies to Europe and, xi, 202
IMF/World Bank aid, 28
importance/leverage use, xv, 35, 60, 203, 262
Middle East oil and, 60
Putin’s tenure and, 9–10, 88–89, 99, 110–111, 119, 169, 179–180, 184–185, 202, 203
Russia as petro-state/consequences, 60, 180
West economic engagement with, 158–159, 183, 203, 204–208
See also Oligarchs of Russia; specific companies
Ryvkin, Andrew, 110
Saakashvili, Mikheil, 173, 185–186, 187, 196
Saddam Hussein
Kuwait/first Gulf War and, x, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 66, 113, 236
power of, 181
Putin and, 109
Sakharov, Andrei
background/status, 114, 119, 250
internal exile/release, 114, 115
political activism, 114, 115–116
Samutsevich, Yekaterina, 135
See also Pussy Riot
Sarkozy, Nicolas, xvii, 2, 158, 161–162, 168–169, 173, 182–183
Satarov, Georgy, 147
Satter, David, 140–141
Schröder, Gerhardt, 9, 105, 161, 162–164, 173
Scowcroft, Brent, 21, 22, 33, 36, 40–41
Sechin, Igor, 163
Sestanovich, Steve, 103–104
Sharon, Ariel, 104
Shaw, George Bernard, 155
Shenderovich, Viktor, 236
Shevardnadze, Eduard, 33
Short, Nigel, 56
Siloviki of Russia, 207–208
Sobyanin, Sergey, 217
Solutions. See Recommendations (overview)
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 43, 116–117, 118, 158
Soros, George, 93
Soviet nostalgia, 84–85
Soviet Union
collapse, ix–x, xx, 20, 25, 26–28, 31, 33, 71, 86
Communist ideology/intellectual superiority and, 43
culture/morality, 16
elections of 1989 and, 17–18
ethnic violence, 17
independence movements, 17, 24, 25, 26, 31
lack of trials following collapse, 5
media from West and, 73
New Union Treaty (1991) and, 26
origins, 44
propaganda/“whataboutism,” 43, 193–194
semiautonomous regions following collapse, 45
state terror/free labor and, 43, 44
West/appeasement and, 19, 198–199
Western aid and, 27–28
World War II and, 29
Stalin, Josef
Chechens/neighbors and, 46
as dictator/power, xxii, xxvi, 8, 43, 87, 91, 94, 168, 189, 236, 237, 253
Yalta Conference (1945) and, 236–237
Surkov, Vladislav, 200–201, 202
Symbols importance, xx, 252–253, 256
Talbott, Strobe, 65
Terrorism/terrorists
examples/methods, 254, 255, 256
modernity/modern values and, 254–256, 265, 267
overcoming, 255–256
See also specific events; specific individuals/groups
Third Wave, The: Democratization in the Late 20th Century (Huntington), 4
Tiananmen Square protests/massacre, 32, 60
Time Person of the Year, 171–172
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Carré), 204
Tito, Josip, 32
Tolokonnikova, Nadezhda, 135, 266–267
See also Pussy Riot
Transparency International/rankings, 201
Trepashkin, Mikhail, 79
Tsarnaev brothers, 46
Udaltsov, Sergei, 148, 215, 232
Ukraine
Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances and, 51–52, 240
EU and, 229
history, 44
Ukraine and Russian aggression
civilian aircraft downing/deaths, 241–242, 243, 244, 247
Clinton’s speech on Kosovo and, 39–41
Crimea and, x, xv, xxiii, 11, 13, 52, 233, 236, 237, 238, 239, 242, 243, 244, 245, 247
description, xxii, xxiii–xxiv, 229–232, 233–234, 238–248, 254, 255, 257
responsibility and, 242–243
Russia’s G8 membership and, xvii, 11, 157, 244
Ukrainian protests/“Euromaidan,” 229–230, 231–233, 243
West and, xxiii–xxiv, 13, 79–80, 157, 162, 238–242, 243–245, 246–248
UN Watch, Morris B. Abram award/Kasparov, 219
United Civil Front, 148, 149, 151
United Nations, 7–8, 26, 38, 45, 47, 64–65, 66, 139, 189, 209, 240, 259–260
United Russia (political party), 140, 155, 167–168, 170, 214, 215
United States
immigrants/immigration, 42–43, 44
Israel-Palestine peace process and, 104
origins/Native Americans, 42–43
situation in 2015, 34
slavery and, 43
See also specific events; specific individuals
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 81–82, 261
US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission’s Civil Society Working Group meeting, 200–202
USA Today, 170–171
USS Cole attacks/killings, 104
Ustinov, Vladimir, 163
Vanguard of Red Youth, 148
Vershbow, Alexander, 128
Voloshin, Alexander, 91
Wall Street Journal, 21, 38, 66, 81, 91–92, 106–107, 137, 160
Wars
elections and, 74–75
See also specific wars
Washington Post, 116
We (Zamjatin), 212
Welles, Orson, 68
“Win-win” talk, 69
Woolsey, James, 83
World Bank, 28
World Cup and Putin, 205
World Trade Organization (WTO) and Russia, 185, 186
World Transformed, A (Bush, H. W. and Scowcroft), 22, 36, 40–41
World War II
Chechens/neighbors and, 46
See also specific individuals/countries
World War III argument, xxvi, 41, 243
Yabloko (political party), 84, 147, 148
Yalta Conference (1945), 236–237
Yanukovych, Viktor, xxiii, 229, 230–232, 233, 236, 237
Yatsenyuk, Arseniy, 231
Yeltsin, Boris
abuse/corruption, xiii, 10, 55, 57, 71, 76, 82, 84, 85, 99
campaign/elections (1996), 50, 55, 57–58, 80
descriptions, ix, 7, 21, 22, 103
pros/cons of presidency, 86–89
Putin and, xiii, 74–75, 76, 77, 80, 82, 85–86, 91, 166
retirement, 82, 107, 156–157, 166
rise to power/Gorbachev and, ix, 18, 21, 22, 26, 27, 56–57, 73, 86
Russia/policies and, xix, 5, 22, 26, 29, 46, 50, 250
Supreme Soviet conflict/strengthening presidency, 56–57
Tatyana (daughter) and, 85–86
West and, xxi, 6, 7, 21, 28, 29, 33, 48–49, 50, 51, 53, 72, 73, 76
Yousafzai, Malala, 265
Yugoslavia under Tito, 32
Yugoslavia war (1990s)
ethnic cleansing/war description, 32, 36–38, 39–41, 63–65, 69–70
NATO/air strikes and, 37, 39, 41, 63, 64, 65
Russia and, 64–66
Yukos energy business
Khodorkovsky and, 76, 123–124, 125–126, 127, 128, 160–161, 206
Putin’s actions on, 123–124, 128, 129, 161, 162, 163, 206–207
Yumasheva, Tatyana, 85–86
Yurgens, Igor, 201–202
Zakaria, Fareed, 198
Zamjatin, Evgenij, 212
Zhirinovsky, Vladimir, xvii, 178
Zyazikov, Murat, 139